Weekly Update

This week I worked extensively on completing the Wesley Road council submissions.

The pressure is on. 4 days to complete everything. Our architect had to purchase the new NBS documents at an insane cost of R2400, to ensure that the timber frame structure's specification met the new council requirements.
This being done, the new first floor structure and staircase could be drawn up accurately with no guess work involved. And so after completely resolving the plans and sections, there was one day left before the client came to sign, and I managed to draw up all of the elevations, roof structure plan, site plan, notes, legends and annotations all in the few hours left before signing. "Looking good," was the comment I recieved. No tweaks, no adjustments, a job well done. I am very happy.

All was left to do after signing was coloring, and that didn't take too long. The weekend is a more than welcome reward after this busy week.

Gaul regatta results

We achieved an overall result of 2nd place in the regatta, and 1st in our division - so we have won provincial championships for this class.

Our great performance has earned us silver and gold medals, as well as a spot on board for national championships in September.

Now all that awaits a long week of work and studies.

Weekly Update & Gaul regatta

This week started off with Wesley Road's council submission. That beig said, the week is also ending short for me due to the public holiday and sailing regatta being held from then to the weekend. Racing starts tomorrow in the cold and wet, and my crew and I have to finish in 1st place of 35. Wish us luck.

Weekly Update

This week I continued with drawing up the existing building on the Wesley Road site, but even though we took accurate measurements the party wall which is theoretically on the boundary does not fall on it. Another shrot site visit would fix that. I proceeded with sketch plans which were presented to the client and immediately after that meeting we were heading in the right direction. The client is pressing on this project and wants to see more developed plans with proper construction, roof and layouts by this morining, so our architect has taken the project into his hands, giving us some time to prepare our submissions for the 10th June. Hence I am still awake fighting with my PDF creator on my new 2nd hand pc, which insists to create only .MDI files and not .PDF's, and Issuu which is taking hours to render my publications after upoading them. I may have to convert and upload upon arriving at work in the morning.

Weekly Update

The moment we all dread. All of Princess Road's drawings need to be re-tweaked. The Engineer's plans had to be abided by to the millimeter. This included drawing his upstand beams in the sections and the narrowly spaced columns. The developers asked for the staircase to come back by several steps to accomodate for Bobcrete's panels, looks fine on plan, but in section the headroom is half that of regulations and the roof could not be raised as we were already at the height restriction. The staircase had to remain as it was and the engineer would have to tend to the first floor, cantilevered walkway and basement layout.